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"As a Jew, I am embarrassed by the role that so many prominent Jews have had in empowering the enemy," Joe Klein writes in a blog from Jerusalem, noting the number of neoconservatives in the Bush war machine who had close ties to the Israeli government. Klein says the War on Terror they helped craft has made Israel less secure.

"Your neo-conservatives have brought the forces of Islamic extremism to our country on three borders," he quotes a Likudnik saying, referring to the empowerment of Hizbollah and Hamas in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank. Klein notes that their enthusiasm for Israel's unfortunate foray into Lebanon last summer was counter-productive as well.